The Promise of Infrastructure

Herausgeber: Gupta, Akhil; Anand, Nikhil; Appel, Hannah

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Produktbeschreibung

Attending to the everyday lives of infrastructure across four continents, the contributors to The Promise of Infrastructure demonstrate how infrastructure such as roads, power lines, and water pipes offer a productive site for generating new ways to theorize time, politics, and promise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000181
• ISBN-10: 147800018X
• Artikelnr.: 50447912

Autorenporträt

Nikhal Anand, Akhil Gupta, and Hannah Appel, editors

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction: Temporality, Politics, and the Promise of Infrastructure /
Hannah Appel, Nikhil Anand, and Akhil Gupta  1
Part I. Time
1. Infrastructural Time / Hannah Appel  41
2. The Future in Ruins: Thoughts on the Temporality of Infrastructure /
Akhil Gupta  62
3. Infrastructures in and out of Time: The Promise of Roads in Contemporary
Peru / Penny Harvey  80
4. The Current Never Stops: Intimacies of Energy Infrastructure in Vietnam
/ Christina Schwenkel  102
Part II. Politics
5. Infrastructure, Apartheid Technopolitics, and Temporalities of
"Transition" / Antina von Schnitzler  133
6. A Public Matter: Water, Hydraulics, Biopolitics / Nikhil Anand  155
Part III.
7. Promising Forms: The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructure / Brian
Larkin  175
8. Sustainable Knowledge Infrastructures / Geoffrey C. Bowker  203
9. Infrastructure, Potential Energy, Revolution / Dominic Boyer  223
Contributors  245
Index  249